For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.